fusil
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Noun edit
fusil (plural fusils)
- (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
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heraldic feature
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.
Noun edit
fusil (plural fusils)
- (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.
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weapon
Etymology 3 edit
Alternative forms.
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fusil (comparative more fusil, superlative most fusil)
- Obsolete spelling of fusile
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal
- 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 70:
- A fusil sea.
- 1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “A Catalogue of the Second Addition of English Native Fossils”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 91:
- Part of one of thoſe round Pillars that are commonly ſuppos'd to be fuſil marble: but not truly; this being of the common Suſſex Marble, full of Sea-Shells.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.
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fusil m (plural fusils)
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Further reading edit
- “fusil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
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fusil m (plural fusiles)
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Further reading edit
- “fusil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014